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Welcome to the Cloud/ Virtualization Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from Cloud and Virtualization experts. This Blog provides insights into the Cloud/Virtualization Management solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM

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You’re probably wondering what the classic cue for a film take has to do with DevOps. Well in fact there are many similarities between it and continuous software delivery. But before we go into movie making let’s set the stage. The emergence of big data, cloud and mobility to address today's business challenges is driving a proliferation of new applications on top of the core business applications from vendors such as SAP, Microsoft and Oracle. As a consequence, IT environments are becoming much more complex, more diverse,... [More]

TUC Webcast:
A Control Center for Next Generation IT Asset and Service Management Please join the Tivoli User Community for a live Webcast
and opportunity for Q&A, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 11:00 AM ET USA and 6:00
PM ET USA. Register for 11:00 AM ET USA: Register for 6:00 PM ET USA: Overview: In 2012, IBM
introduced the IBM SmartCloud Control Desk, a unified platform for IT Service
Management. In Feb 2013,
we released updates to SmartCloud Control Desk, adding more features, and
another step towards the vision of a true control... [More]

TUC Webcast: Maximize the Benefits of Virtualization for Greater ROI Please join the Tivoli User Community for a live Webcast and opportunity for Q&A, Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM ET USA. Click here to reserve your webcast seat now About this Webcast: Challenges with virtualized environments are driving the shift to
increased integration of service management capabilities such as image
and patch management, high-scale provisioning, monitoring, storage and
security. In this webcast, learn how organizations can realize the... [More]

TUC Webcast: Top
5 Reasons to check out the ‘Jazz For Service Management’ Beta! Please join the Tivoli User Community for a live Webcast and
opportunity for Q&A, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM ET USA. Reserve Your Webcast Seat Now OVERVIEW: This Webcast will introduce the Top 5 reasons TUC members should
check out the Jazz for Service Management beta. The webcast will include
a realtime, live demonstration of Jazz for Service Management, showcasing the
value of linked data for simplifying integration across existing... [More]

Join us on
the Tivoli User Community webcast and opportunity for questions,
Tuesday, September 25th at 11:00 AM, ET, USA R eserve Your Webcast Seat Now Overview:
While virtualization can produce significant cost savings as a result of
reducing infrastructure overhead, it does not address the single-largest cost
element for most data centers—the labor to manage this environment—which can be
as high as 40 percent of the overall cost. If not controlled, management costs
can negate the cost savings realized through virtualization.... [More]

Join us on
the upcoming Tivoli User Community webcast and
opportunity for questions, Tuesday, September 18 th at 11:00 AM, ET, USA Reserve Your Webcast Seat Now Overview: The benefits of virtualization,
have spurred many organizations to move toward a virtual infrastructure. While
these organizations enjoy accelerated service delivery and resource
optimization to reduced costs for IT resources, they have also frequently experienced
a new set of management complexities. The nature of the virtual environment,
which calls for a vast... [More]

How do I find out if my warehouse has all the tables/views needed to run a report or create a custom report? A new set of reports have been added under the folder "Prerequisites
Checking" in ITMfVE 7.1 for the VMware VI agent which provide you with a
prerequisite scanner that checks if the list of all tables/views needed
to run the predefined reports and the ones needed to support custom
reporting are available in the Tivoli Data Warehouse. It also checks the
VMware VI agent version and lets you know if the available version... [More]

ITM for Virtual Environments provides out-of-the-box pages in TIP (Tivoli Integrated Portal) that display well on a standard screen size of 1280 by 1024 pixels. If you use a higher screen resolution, you can customize the TIP pages to better suit your screen. Additionally, you can rearrange the components on a TIP page if you prefer that certain widgets are shown on a certain portion of the page. Let's examine both of these customizations. Let's go through an example where we use a screen resolution of 1600 by 900 pixels, to see how we can... [More]

We are happy to announce that a Beta program is underway for the Tivoli Virtual Deployment Engine (VDE ), also known as High Scale Low Touch ( HSLT ). VDE will provide a low-cost, easy to implement cloud solution to fulfil demand for rapid deployment of virtual machines and storage in high or low volume environments with massive scalability, high resiliency and low management costs. It's been in development for a number of months and is now ready for wider trials with our customers. Those who have witnessed it first hand are highly impressed... [More]

The Tivoli User Community (TUC) has a second quarter Community Focus on Cloud and Virtualization. It's a great time to check out the TUC and collaborate with some of the other 27,000 Tivoli Users. There may even be a local User Group in your area; there are more than 160 local groups world wide as well as ten virtual user groups, grouped by product focus areas. Each quarter the TUC reaches far and wide to bring together many different view points, presentations, and "experts on tap" to discuss a hot topic that the members have... [More]

The IBM® Cloud Integration Lab has published a technical integration note titled CSP² Technical Integration Note: Managing the core system . This technical integration note provides a general introduction to the IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform (CSP²) integrated solutions, and describes the Phase 1 solution in detail. This technical integration note provides a Cloud Administrator with guidance on how to exploit the following capabilities in a cloud environment: Deploying and configuring the cloud and basic monitoring solutions... [More]